Tag: Openness

Free Download Rafael Reuveny, "Democracy and Economic Openness in an Interconnected System: Complex Transformations"
English | 2009 | pages: 361 | ISBN: 0521491436 | PDF | 2,4 mb
In this book, Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny combine the social scientific approach with a broad, interdisciplinary scope to address some of the most intriguing and important political, economic, and environmental issues of our times. Their book employs formal and statistical methods to study the interactions of economic globalization, democratic governance, income inequality, economic development, military violence, and environmental degradation. In doing so, Li and Reuveny cross multiple disciplinary boundaries, engage various academic debates, bring the insights from compartmentalized bodies of literature into direct dialogue, and uncover policy tradeoffs in a growingly interconnected political-economic-environmental system. They show that growing interconnectedness in the global system increases the demands on national leaders and their advisors; academicians and policy makers will need to cross disciplinary boundaries if they seek to better understand and address the policy tradeoffs of even more complex processes than the ones investigated here.

Free Download Nathaniel Tkacz, "Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness"
English | ISBN: 022619227X | 2014 | 232 pages | EPUB | 742 KB
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness―of decision-making, data, and organizational structure―is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business.

Free Download Openness Mind: Self-knowledge and Inner Peace through Meditation by Tarthang Tulku
English | January 1, 1990 | ISBN: 0913546569 | 180 pages | PDF | 4.11 Mb
For the many people searching for ways to improve the quality of their lives,Openness Mindclearly explains the value of meditation and how to proceed with its practice. Defining meditation as a way of opening our minds to the richness of experience, this book emphasizes a practical approach that anyone can apply to develop awareness, transcend the limitations of self-image, improve concentration, and effect positive changes in their way of being. Here readers have an array of opportunities to reflect on experience and find their way through the layers of self-image, tension, fears, and emotions to the ground of authentic being.

Free Download Manuele Gragnolati, Almut Suerbaum, "Openness in Medieval Europe"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3965580310, 3965580329 | PDF | pages: 368 | 4.4 mb
This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways. Explored through notions such as porosity, vulnerability, exposure, unfinishedness, and inclusivity, openness turns out to permeate medieval culture, unsettling boundaries, binaries, and clear-cut distinctions.

Free Download Nathaniel Tkacz, "Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness"
English | ISBN: 022619227X | 2014 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 1006 KB
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness―of decision-making, data, and organizational structure―is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business.

Free Download Openness and Coordination: National Economies of the U.S., Japan, and Germany in a Globalized World by Hyeong-ki Kwon
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 9819733510 | 7 MB
This book documents various patterns of re-constructing national economies in corporate globalization. As international competition toughens, major national corporations have been forced to reorganize themselves beyond their national boundaries in order to survive. The problem is that a serious tension arises between these national corporations’ self-interests and the overall interests of their national economies. Contrary to neoliberal optimism and nationalist pessimism, globalization does not lead to natural upgrade or denationalization. This book examines how three nations, including the free-market liberal U.S., the statist model of Japan, and the social coordination model of Germany, have reconstituted their national economies.

Free Download The Impact of Openness and Ambiguity Tolerance on Learning English As a Foreign Language
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031459393 | 187 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This book highlights the importance of individual learner differences in learning English as a foreign language and reports the findings of a study which investigated the impact of two personality traits, which are, openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, on target language attainment among Polish secondary school students. The book provides an exhaustive overview of the theoretical issues and existing research related to personality, emphasizing the two traits under investigation, openness, and ambiguity tolerance, which are the focus of the empirical study reported later in the book. The empirical investigation explored relationships between openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, as well as their impact on attainment in learning English as a foreign language. Moreover, it also aimed to shed light on the link between these traits and students’ assessments (i.e., self-assessment and school grades). The findings of the study provide a basis for proposing specific profiles of foreign language learners with different levels of openness and ambiguity tolerance.